Language Quote by Jean-Paul Malfatti

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

— Salman Rushdie

I have my mother. I love her very much, but on many issues, we will never find a common language, because she simply doesn't…

— Ksenia Sobchak

Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and…

— Will Rogers

My sister and brother and I grew up speaking both languages - French to our father and English to our mother. But when we…

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco

I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

— John Milton

Don't worry about what your mother thinks of your language.

— Elmore Leonard

Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.

— Rumi

I've raised daughters who are English, and I'm American, so they're culturally different to me, which is an unusual situation.

— Elizabeth McGovern

People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.

— Siri Hustvedt

Speaking two languages fluently makes each language not so important.

— Arca

To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language.

— Arlene Benedict

The situation was kind of complicated in that my mother didn't speak Spanish. My father spoke English, you know, as best he could.

— Luis Alberto Urrea